Yes Neil, you have my blessing to give yourself permissions to do a
release which removes the email addresses. It's waited 9 years, a few
more weeks won't hurt, if you could add it to your low priority queue :)
-Alex
On 5/24/2024 9:48 AM, Neil Bowers wrote:
Hi Alex,
The documentation being displayed by MetaCPAN is pulled out of the
documentation in the latest release, including the AUTHOR and CONTACT
sections you referred to. So to change it, someone needs to do a release.
It would be best if someone there could do a release, but if not, I
could give myself permissions and do a release which removes the email
address. I wouldn't be able to get to that for a couple of weeks though.
Cheers,
Neil
On 24 May 2024 at 17:26 +0100, Alex Ma <ma...@caida.org>, wrote:
Well Neil, that's not the best solution for me because the goal was
to not dead-end someone who found our cpan email address on an
official page (i.e, https://metacpan.org/pod/Chart::Graph), but I
guess we'll just hope they get the message when the email gets
ignored/rejected.
> If you went with the first option, I could blank out the email
address associated with the CAIDAPERL account, to stop you getting
any email. Hopefully option 1 is ok with you?
You offered being able to blank out the email addresses associated
with the CAIDAPERL account, we do want that, but you're saying you
can't remove the c...@caida.org from the AUTHOR section of that page?
I've given up on updating the documentation itself, but i'm talking
about the content on the main listing at
https://metacpan.org/pod/Chart::Graph#CONTACT and
https://metacpan.org/pod/Chart::Graph#AUTHOR
-Alex
On 5/24/2024 6:39 AM, Neil Bowers wrote:
Hi Alex,
> Let's put it up for adoption then, though I don't think this will
be useful to anyone anylonger.
Great. I've just transferred ownership to the special ADOPTME user,
which flags it as being available for adoption.
If you look at this page, you can see how MetaCPAN flags the
adoptability to end users:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Yahoo::Search
> We'd like the CONTACT and AUTHOR section to remove any official
implication that we're supporting it anymore
The only way to update sections in the documentation is for another
release to be done. Quite often when someone is done with a module,
they do one more release, to update the documentation to say "This
is no longer supported, we suggest you look for other modules /
solutions", etc, and to remove contact details.
You could do one more release like that, but I'm guessing that you
just want done with this, and don't want to do another release. So I
suggest we just leave it in its current state – if people search for
"chart" or "graph", there are plenty of other options which come up
ahead of Chart::Graph.
Cheers,
Neil
